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The Impact of Executive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa REPORT | JUNE 2017 The Impact of Executive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa REDUCING POVERTY THROUGH FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT 1 FSD Africa Report The Impact of Executive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY: CANADIAN BUREAU FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AND UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. FOR: FINANCIAL SECTOR DEEPENING AFRICA. 2 The Impact of Executive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Contents List of Abbreviations 5 Executive Summary 7 1. Background and Context of the Project 10 2. Research Methodology 12 3. The Financial and Banking Sector in SSA 13 3.1 The Financial and Banking Sector in SSA: Current State and Trends 13 3.2 Summarising the Current State of Financial and Banking Services in SSA 15 4. Conceptual Framework for Training Needs in the Banking Sector 18 5. Primary Country Research Findings 21 5.1 The Use of Executive Education in Financial Service Organisations 22 5.2 The Impact of Executive Education on Financial Service Organisations 24 5.3 The Impact of Executive Education on Customers 28 5.4 Financial Service Organisations and Impact Measurement 28 5.5 The Impact of Executive Education on Employees 29 5.6 The Impact of Executive Education on Organisational Change 30 5.7 The Perception of Executive Education Programmes 31 5.8 Effectiveness of Executive Education: Perception Gap Between Managers and Employees 31 5.9 Effectiveness of Executive Education: Gender Differences 33 6. Executive Education and the Financial Services Sector in Secondary Countries 34 7. Conclusions 35 8. Actionable Recommendations 36 9. Impact Measurement and Pathway 38 References Cited 41 Appendix A: Research Team 43 Appendix B: List of Universities 44 Appendix C: List of Participating Organisations 45 Appendix D: Secondary Country Case Studies 47 Appendix E: Suggested Design for Further Research 81 3 FSD Africa Report List of Figures & Tables Table 1 Summary of Key Findings 7 Table 2 Banking in SSA: Summary from the European Investment Bank 2013 Study 16 Table 3 Training Needs Analysis 19 Table 4 Descriptive Statistics 21 Table 5 Focus Group Interviews 21 Table 6 Principal Training Institutions 22 Table 7 Types of Executive Education Programmes 23 Table 8 Average Key Ratings by Employees and Managers 24 Table 9 Test of Differences in Perception of Income Enhancement 32 Table 10 Test of Differences in Perception of Mobility 32 Table 11 Gender Responses on Pay and Mobility 33 Table 12 Executive Education Impact Measurement Framework 38 Table 13 Impact Pathway 39 Figure 1 Training Needs and Providers 18 Figure 2 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Management Skills 25 Figure 3 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Accounting Skills 25 Figure 4 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Financial Skills 26 Figure 5 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Financial Opportunity 26 Figure 6 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Performance 26 Figure 7 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Enhanced Overall Performance 27 Figure 8 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Career Preparedness 28 Figure 9 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Pay 29 Figure 10 Perceived Impact of Executive Education on Mobility 30 Figure 11 Gender Difference in Pay and Mobility 33 4 The Impact of Executive Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Abbreviations ARL African Research Lead ASQ American Society for Quality – Ghana CBIE Canadian Bureau for International Education CRL Canadian Research Lead EMBA Executive Master of Business Administration ExEd Executive Education FG Focus Group FSDA Financial Sector Deepening Africa GIMPA Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration IRIC Institut des Relations Internationale du Cameroun ISD Instructional Systems Design Model of Training/Education Impact KNUST Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology MBA Master of Business Administration MGMT Management MUBS Makerere University Business School MUK Makerere University, Kampala N Sample Size (overall) n Subsample Size (small sample of overall N) r Correlation Coefficient RQ Research Question SSA Sub-Saharan Africa TPB Theory of Planned Behaviour UNB University of New Brunswick 5 FSD Africa Report Acknowledgements The researchers, Canadian Bureau for International Education and University of New Brunswick, on behalf of Financial Sector Deepening Africa would like to extend their gratitude to all those who assisted in the compilation of this report. We would like to thank the principal education institutions in the four primary research countries: Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun; University of Ghana; University of Pretoria; and Makerere University for providing us with the details of the types of executive education programs and courses available. We would also like to thank the research team from CBIE/UNB – David Comerford, Dr. Jeffery J. McNally, Dr. Eben Otuteye, Dr. Gopalan Srinivasan, Dr. Joseph Abekah; and the African research team including Prof. Abendnego Feehi Okoe Amartey (Ghana); Dr. George Frempong (South Africa); Prof. Alexis Kwontchie (Cameroon); and Prof. Wasswa Isaac Katono (Uganda). A special thanks to Dr. Moses Ochieng, Julias Alego and Martin Namasaka at FSD Africa for their guidance and support throughout the research process as well as their valued feedback on the findings. The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and in no way entirely reflect those of FSD Africa. 6 Executive Summary Commissioned by Financial Sector Deepening Africa sector across SSA and in each of the targeted countries. (FSDA), the Canadian Bureau for International Education In addition, a sampling of the key programmes and (CBIE) in collaboration with its member institution, the course offerings of the main education providers were University of New Brunswick (UNB), herein after referred identified in each of the target countries. A conceptual to as “the researchers”, conducted the following research framework was designed to map out the training needs on the impact of executive education on financial sector in the sector and impact indicators have been proposed organisations in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). to help in the future measurement of the impact of To provide a reference point for this research, the executive education in the region. researchers has defined executive education (ExEd) Overview of Findings: As the desk study confirmed, as: certified but non-credit and non-degree academic in the last ten years SSA’s financial sector has seen programmes and/or courses at graduate-level business unprecedented growth due to factors including the schools worldwide for executives, business leaders and/ continent’s rapidly emerging middle class, significant or functional managers. policy reforms and increased banking regulations in Overview of Scope and Methodology: Primary a number of economies. In recent years, a number of research data was gathered from surveys, interviews studies conducted by global financial institutions such and focus groups in four primary countries: Cameroon, as Ernst and Young, KPMG, the Economist Intelligence Ghana, South Africa and Uganda. A team of researchers Unit, the MasterCard Foundation and the European from UNB, assisted by an African Research Lead (ARL) Investment Bank identified weaknesses, strengths and from each of the four primary countries, approached the opportunities in the financial sector that were further research with the aim to: 1) conduct a study of current validated by the data from the primary and secondary ExEd offerings in general as well as ExEd offerings aimed countries of this research. See Table 1 for a summary of at the financial sector; 2) conduct an institutional and the key findings. market-level analysis; and 3) propose impact indicators by The studies mentioned above note in particular that which executive education can be measured objectively. SSA has experienced significant growth in the banking Desk reviews were conducted for SSA in general as sector including its emergence as a mobile banking well as for six secondary focus countries: Kenya, Senegal, leader, openness to foreign, global and Pan-African banks Tanzania, Zambia, Namibia and Nigeria. A brief case and active use of microfinance mechanisms. However, study was produced for each of the secondary countries the continent’s financial sector is still considered (see Appendix E for Secondary Country Case Studies). ‘underdeveloped’ with major challenges of unmet The research identified major trends, impacts and financial and banking needs that executive education challenges around the impact of ExEd on the financial training can help to address. Table 1: Summary of Key Findings ExEd in SSA needs to Qualitative and quantitative data triangulated to reveal that ExEd, be more practical and while in high demand and well received in the finance sector, is in need less theoretical of improvement in SSA, particularly in the provision of more practical training options. Employees are Employees do not feel their pay is commensurate with their ExEd. somewhat dissatisfied Particularly, as many employees pay for their own education, with their pay after they may perceive that their pay is below what they expected completing ExEd after investing in ExEd. There were also gender differences in the training perceptions of ExEd on pay. 7 FSD Africa Report ExEd graduates Employees that are ExEd graduates report that they are more mobile perceived themselves than employees who do not possess ExEd. There were also gender to be mobile differences in the perceptions of ExEd on mobility. Managers
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